TPB will be blocked by UK ISPs

I've not been able to access it since last night, even through a swedish VPN.

Although if they are suffering a DDOS attack as stated above it's hardly surprising. Wonder if it's been planned by the film/music industries... :p
 
Actually, they got somewhat DDOSed by the BPI in doing this. I read somewhere that thier peak traffic the day this was announced was 12 MILLION higher than thier previous peak usage. Ah, justice :D
 
Im with VM and i can still access TPB, took me 5 mins to work out how.

When will these ppl realise its impossible to police the internet.
 
When i went to the site and it was blocked it took me less than 3 minutes to get a mirror/proxy for the site.. What a joke it is that VM think just blocking that site will stop anything.. :rolleyes:
 
Skyline said:
When i went to the site and it was blocked it took me less than 3 minutes to get a mirror/proxy for the site.. What a joke it is that VM think just blocking that site will stop anything.. :rolleyes:
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VM knows that its pointless,they are just being put under pressure as they are one of the main ISP's in the UK.

Until the actual site / domain is legally closed, new proxys will be released to allow access.
 
Yeah maybe they are looking to put the scares on the casual downloaders "Oh noes they have blocked pb they must be watching what i am downloading :eek:"
 
I find it interesting that there is all this bile towards the ISPs - this is not them caving to political pressure, its a high court injunction. They would be fined massivley if they disobeyed. Its also why the blocks are so week - they are complying with the injunction, but only as far as required.

I'm with Virgin, and I hold no grudge agasint them for this. If they start blocking sites at the direct request of the BPI however, it will be time to move on.
 
That's pretty much the point - by making it harder to get to you scare some off and just inconvenience others to the point where it's not worthwhile. They're not going for individual downloaders directly.

VPN costs what, £6 a month? For people pirating a CD or two a month it stops being worthwhile in terms of only saving half the money and still being illegal.

It's a tough one for me morally - people have the right to protect their work: but a lot of those who pirate are those who couldn't afford to buy it anyway - as they get older and have spare cash, it gets a lot less convenient compared to the legal channels. I certainly buy a lot more music/DVDs etc, pay for spotify (until recently) and lovefilm/netflix. What annoys me is that it's not the person who wrote/made it who profits, it's the record labels: and they're hardly short of a few quid.
 
its still working on sky here :) its so easy to get round anyway the ISPs don't care, they are just doing the bare minimum to comply with this retarded ruling
 
Audigex said:
...They're not going for individual downloaders directly...It's a tough one for me morally...
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This, for me, is why I have no sympathy whatsoever for these companies. Rather than going after the people doing the infringing, they seek to shut down perfectly legitimate tools instead. The pirate bay is rather like google - it indexes whats out there. If people are uploading infringing content, then thats what gets indexed. This does not mean you seek to shut down the indexer, you go after the uploader. Do this successfully and the pirate bay would only have legit content.

I'm aware that the reason they don't is that this is like playing whack-a-mole, making it far more expensive. Well, thats up to them, they have the money to do it whichever way they want. But thier methods make me an enemy, it makes many musicians thier enemy (Google Dan bull bye bye bpi) and if I ever come to power, I will happily enact massive restructure of copyright in general, with no consideration to these people. You reap what you sow.
 
Yeah I found this was blocked the other day, doesn't stop you using the proxy sites though.
 
kmufc77 said:
Im with VM and i can still access TPB, took me 5 mins to work out how.

When will these ppl realise its impossible to police the internet.
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Policeing the internet is like trying to stop paint drying ha! it can and will NOT ever be done !! unless they cut everyone off :)
 
A simple google for piratebay will return a working domain name with no need for any proxy/vpn etc, all the block has done is increase the publics awareness of the piratebay, pretty dumb really.
The music industry should read up more on the Streisand effect!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

In May 2012, the UK's High Court ordered 5 British ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay due to copyright infringement concerns. The media coverage led to The Pirate Bay receiving a record amount of traffic. According to the site's blog, the number of unique visitors increased by up to 12 million
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Linkex said:
This, for me, is why I have no sympathy whatsoever for these companies. Rather than going after the people doing the infringing, they seek to shut down perfectly legitimate tools instead. The pirate bay is rather like google - it indexes whats out there. If people are uploading infringing content, then thats what gets indexed. This does not mean you seek to shut down the indexer, you go after the uploader. Do this successfully and the pirate bay would only have legit content.

I'm aware that the reason they don't is that this is like playing whack-a-mole, making it far more expensive. Well, thats up to them, they have the money to do it whichever way they want. But thier methods make me an enemy, it makes many musicians thier enemy (Google Dan bull bye bye bpi) and if I ever come to power, I will happily enact massive restructure of copyright in general, with no consideration to these people. You reap what you sow.
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There is a little bit of a difference - generally speaking google will de-list infringing content when asked to... generally google don't aim to list infringing content

TPB make all of their money directly by allowing people access to infringing content, they openly encourage people to list infringing content, by doing so they make themselves a target

now, that's not to say that the real solution to the problem is actually for content providers to make their content available for a reasonable price, but it is much quicker for them to attack a high profile target like TPB (and in the process, if they can identify the people and bank accounts being used by them they might also get at some of that money that they claim is effectively being stolen from them)

going after each individual person that hosts a file would be incredibly costly and inefficient and not a real deterrent for others

equally, cutting off TPB is also pointless as a) theres ways round it and b) even if they shut down one site another one pops up (or 3)
 
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